Strength Training
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6 Beginner Moves Using Vibration Plate Training
A Life Time Dynamic Personal Trainer explains the benefits of the Power Plate — and demonstrates how to use the machine.
Strong Summer: 6 Tips for Building Strength in the Sunny Season
Advice for enjoying the summer season while working toward your strength-training goals from two Dynamic Personal Trainers at Life Time.
Level Up Your Favorite Cardio With These Strength and Mobility Moves
The secret to stepping up your cardio game may not be doing more cardio, but rather adding strength and mobility training to your routine. These moves can complement your cardio exercise of choice — and improve your overall performance.
How to Do the Thruster
This full-body move combines two powerful strength moves into one exercise, boosting power and conditioning.
3 Favorite Lunge Variations from the Guinness World Record Holder
Meet Austin Head, the Life Time performer and trainer who holds the Guinness World Record for the most lunges performed in one hour.
4 Moves You’ll See in Warrior Sculpt
What to expect in this fast-paced class that blends yoga, cardio, and strength training into one challenging workout.
How to Do the Goblet March
This low-impact move challenges your balance while strengthening your grip, core, hips, and back.
Why Escalating Density Training?
Escalating Density Training (EDT) is an approach to training that’s focused on density during strength training — and that can mean big results in a shorter period of exercise.
Which Strength Class Is Right for Me?
Build your strength-training routine with the many class options at Life Time.
The Benefits of the Dead Hang
Strengthen your shoulders, core, grip, and more with this often-overlooked move.
Which Boxing Class Is Right for Me?
Discover the three boxing and kickboxing classes offered at Life Time and what you can expect in each.
Standing Abs Vs. Floor Abs — Which Is Better?
If you have balance issues, floor-based exercises are the way to go. If you have joint issues such as wrist pain, however, standing abs are ideal. Here’s why.
Sleep, Sweat, Repeat: 4 Workouts You Could Do Over and Over
Experience Life‘s fitness editor weighs in on routines you could turn to time and time again.
How to Use 4 Popular Strength-Training Machines
A Dynamic Personal Trainer demonstrates using four common strength-training machines — and offers advice for adding them to your workout routine.
Brad Jones on Overcoming Setbacks and Thriving at Life Time
A 60day Challenge winner reflects on the whole-body health benefits he received when he began focusing on his fitness.
How to Do the Clamshell
Strengthen your hips and glutes — and help build your side butt — with this lower-body isolation move. Plus, explore four variations to make it more challenging.
Strong, Fast, and Fit: A 9-Week Escalating Density Program
Short on time? This nine-week program will get you strong — in less than three hours a week.
The Simple Kettlebell Complex
Work your entire body with this fast, fun routine.
Ask the Trainers: Your Fitness Questions, Answered
What’s the right exercise routine for me? How often should I be working out? How can I make progress when I’m starved for time? Life Time trainers Makoto Matsuo, CPT, and Sarah Pope, CPT, join us to answer a few of the most common fitness questions they hear from members.
5 Ways to Improve Your Posture and Balance
A Dynamic Personal Trainer offers tips for working on your posture and balance so you can reduce the risk of falling.
4 Strength-Training Tips for Active Older Adults
An ARORA-certified trainer offers advice for starting or maintaining an effective resistance-training routine, along with guidance for balancing it with low-impact cardio efforts.